America is Fucked

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    America is Having the Mother of All Social Collapses
    If American Life Feels Frightening, It’s Because It’s Imploding — In Gruesome and Catastrophic Ways
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    Trump’s America is many things. Even I struggle to express the extent of the calamity in words by now. It’s a place where mass death is an everyday affair. Trump’s America is a plague state, wracked by illness and disease. Trump’s America is an economic trainwreck. It’s a society whose social bonds have been blown apart by hate and brutality and selfishness. It’s a budding police state — those “federal agents” are coming to your streets. It’s a collapsing nation — one imploding into authoritarianism, poverty, disease, and death.
    Like I said, even I struggle to put it into words.
    But the economist in me can express it much more succinctly and precisely.
    When I say “The Mother of All Social Collapses,” I mean it. Trump’s America is a society that combines all the strands of social collapse that we know if — and then some. Yes, really.
    Economically, Trump’s America is Soviet. Politically and socially, it resembles Nazi Germany. And culturally, it’s Taliban-esque, aggressively retrograde. That’s a lot of ruin for one country, which is why it’s so hard to put into words. It really is breathtaking and staggering when you think about it.

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    • uh that's dumb as fuck.
      Economically, Trump’s America is Soviet
      no, not a hand-controlled, state owned economy.      sted
    • Politically and socially, it resembles Nazi Germany
      no, for example isn'tcentralized and directly repressive and provocative against a certain minority...      sted
    • "culturally, it’s Taliban-esque,"
      whoever the fuck wrote this has no idea what "culturally" means.      sted
    • Vanilla Isis is real.PhanLo
    • Life in America doesn't feel frightening.toemaas
    • That's because you're fearless Toemaas. I remember you saying the increasing death rate was fine too. You'll be fine.PhanLo
    • Mother of all collapses? lol.
      Let's not get carried away, pretty sure if you go there you'll just find people doing normal American things.      yuekit
    • Eating hamburgers, watching Netflix, talking about what they watched on Netflix...yuekit
    • Granted I have not been home in a while but I assume most of the country still exists.yuekit
    • Ugh. The idea it's Trump's America. Hes more a Clinton president. Hasn't do e much. Mainly media for headline bucks using free press has done more to underminedeathboy
    • Image. His executive power abuses fall in line as others. Terrible. Will say Twitter should ban him but it's all they got.deathboy
    • But we are not in a proxy war. However his fiscal policies of doubling down is more him understanding the fuck ups we have been making post wwiideathboy
    • So far the loudest voice I have seen is the left and most hostile. Even election night in a pub of I'd guess wealthy, but very conservative blue collar businessdeathboy
    • Owners hunters out door types and not one fuck given to election. Beer and sports and friends and fa.y only concerndeathboy
    • While the media faces melted off. If trump had america it's all tabloid media and those who dig that drama. If anything he has proved it perfectly. How many medeathboy
    • Companies that live soley on tabloid shit against him. Nytimes CNN are more successful than fox for himdeathboy
    • What bugs me the most is of like 20 Democrats were only peoe making any hollow promises of Rich's not there's to give. And on the right bill weld the only guy.deathboy
    • This team shit. Is no one on the left or right better than trump? That has any principle. That is the tragedydeathboy
    • But framers understood it. Washington lived by it. Why such power has to be decentralized. Ppl need to focus local not king worship through media lensedeathboy
    • Inequality in the US has reached the same level as pre-revolutionary France. The 1% have used a heady mixture of fear and hatred to keep the status quo.monoboy
    • The zombie economy has run out of free fed dollars, households have crippling debt, and it's looking like a depression is on the way.monoboy
    • If the last four years has taught us anything, it's that people are dumb enough to walk straight into fascism.monoboy
    • All it takes is a third of the people, to kill another third, whilst the last third does nothing.monoboy
    • By the time Trumpy gets booted in November and probably imprisoned. It might be too late.monoboy
    • If he wins, it's a nailed on certainty that America will implode and take the world with it.monoboy
    • Here's Linda with the weather.monoboy
    • Btw, it'll start with the collapse of the 'rentier economy' when do nothing rich people run out of hard working families to skim because they can't pay.monoboy
    • The working class will get thrown under the bus, again. Banks will fuck every break even businesses that leases, then the middle class landlords.monoboy
    • The federal bank will do everything it can to try to keep borrowing and inflation low because all the banks are trading on air.monoboy
    • When the housing market crashes, the banks fail and confidence goes in the dollar. Carnage.monoboy
    • The US can't do a traditional Nazi economic trick, because they've already spent every tax dollar on their military since the 80s.monoboy
    • They'll just go straight to the full-scale invasion of somewhere. Iran probably.monoboy
    • Or we could re-invent the global economic system into one that's inclusive of all through radical legislation and reform.monoboy
    • Que sçay-je?monoboy
    • How is line height = 1.4 in this post, while its 1.5 everywhere else?
      https://i.imgur.com/…
      https://i.imgur.com/…      drgs
    • I NEVER SAID I WAS OK WITH A RISING DEATHRATE!! Proof that all you want is to divide and create hate. No amount of "Drawing of the day" posts will make uptoemaas
    • You did, you said it wasn't anything to worry about. Things seem absolutely awesome now though. Didn't you say more people would die of the flu?PhanLo
    • No I didn't say either of those things. I was trying to quell your "End of the world/America" hype. Just like I'm trying todo with this ridiculous post.toemaas
    • I'm not a believer in the end times, it'll all probably be fine. With a record recovery. Everyone high fives.PhanLo
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